9th Oct 2019 – it’s my birthday!

Hey all, hope you are well!

A (slightly mournful) disclaimer – just to let you know, this hasn’t been a proud day, but it’s been a great day. I promised myself the blog would be honest, warts and all.

Today has been a great day, work was not too busy, until about 4.45pm anyway, got loads to do tomorrow morning!

I managed to do the exercise programme review blog which I’ve been meaning to do for ages.

I had a bit of a lay in this morning and was woken by my gorgeous niece who wanted to wish me a happy birthday, I also got to speak to my nephew, their mum, and there may have been a murmer from our youngest niece! There is no better way to be woken up 😍

My daughter and her partner popped in with a beautiful card and lovely presents (naughty as they’ve already got a pressie on order), Paul also spoiled me with card and pressies (naughty as he’s already bought me a foraging day)!

My mum in law bought me ciggies from duty free, and my sister in law bought me a voucher for one of my favourite restaurants!

On top of all this, I’ve had loads of lovely messages!

Talk about SPOILED ROTTEN!

So, let’s get on with business!

Food – 28g natural nuts, my salad, 1 banana, 2 shortbread bickies and 1 chocolate, bickies and choc courtesy of my daughter and (one day to be) daughter in law! Salad. I purposely didn’t have egg and fruit to try and counter the treats.

Salmon with oven cooked onion, squash, courgette, onion and mushroom, with a bit of quinoa. Added the quinoa as Amy joined us for dinner, so was making food go further. I would like to say at this point, I fought hard to stop a Chinese order being made!

And then……  chocolate cake!  I have already portioned the remainder out and tubbed it up ready to give to the family.

The dome by the way is hollow, it’s a smash cake!

Fluid – 200ml milk, 3 teas, 1l water. There will be no more fluid in about 20 minutes, I only had to get up three times last night, and I’m sure that’s because of my fluid intake curfew!

Exercise – Paul’s alarm didn’t wake me this morning, my body was obviously clinging onto sleep, so I didn’t do exercise first thing. I did do my planned stretches during my lunch time, but nothing tonight.

So, a bit of damage limitation, not enough though I fear, but a wonderful day!

Tomorrow will not be brilliant either, however I’ve only got a small cake for the office, I might even get away with having no cake! In all honesty, I’m not sure I have that much self restraint!

So, good night all. Speak to you tomorrow.